Proceedings of the Atlantic Striped Bass Workshop and Roundtable Discussion. Held in Baltimore, Maryland on February 18-19, 1998. Special Report No. 67 of the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission.

摘要

The decline of striped bass populations in Chesapeake Bay and along the Atlantic coast during the 1970s prompted Congress to request a study to examine the status of the stocks, identify causes for population declines, and analyze the economic impact of the decline in harvest (the Anadromous Fish Conservation Act amended as Public Law 96-118, 16 U.S.C. 757g). The ensuing study, begun in 1979, was known as the Emergency Striped Bass Study (ESBS, later changed to the Striped Bass Study, (SBS) and was funded annually until 1994.